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School Building
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Description: School Building
Other Names:
Address: Las Cruces, (East Picacho), Dona Anna County, New Mexico
Type: educational: elementary
Original Client:
Date:
Condition: not built

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost or Gustavus A. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: rectangular (?) with projecting wings, one story
Budget/Cost:

Foundation: probably concrete
Wall Materials: plastered (probably adobe)
Roofing Materials: flat
Other Materials Used: wood lintels

Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library: Ponsford 380, photograph of rendering, front elevation

Bibliography:

Remarks: Our informant said that there never was a school in Old Picacho. He went to old Fair Acres school in the 1960s, a building which did not look like the drawing.

Prepared for the El Paso Public Library by Lloyd C. and June F. Engelbrecht under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990